CONDOM FOUND BETWEEN FLAPS OF MEAT

A Cheetingham resident reacted with outrage and disgust after his daughter found a condom in a hamburger on Friday afternoon.

The misplaced prophylactic was found by schoolgirl Megan Turner when her father took her to I’ll Be Burgered in Froghill High Street as a treat for passing a spelling test.

“I went to the shop with Daddy,” said Megan, “and he bought me a ‘Twice As Tasty’, which is my favourite. But when I bit into it, I found I had this funny rubbery thing in my mouth.”

At first the 10-year-old thought that the gherkins in the burger were a bit stale and decided to say nothing. But when she found that she was still unable to swallow the object after two minutes’ hard chewing, she decided to take the offending article out of her mouth.

“I was absolutely horrified at what I saw,” said Megan’s father, 42-year-old engineer Wallace, “as my daughter pulled the thing out of her mouth, I realised that it was a condom. Worse, it had obviously been used.”

When interviewed by the Observer, Liam Gutless, manager of the Froghill branch of I’ll Be Burgered, said: “We are, of course, deeply sorry for any distress we may have caused Megan and her father.

“Clearly there should no foreign bodies whatsoever in any of our food items. We’ll certainly be conducting a full and thorough investigation to find out who the culprit is and exactly what happened.

“The problem is that the ‘Twice As Tasty’ is a double burger. And, even if I say so myself, the two flaps of meat do look rather suggestive.

"Several members of staff have commented on this in the past and I can only imagine that one of them must have allowed his imagination to get the better of him.

“However, if there is a good side to all of this,” he added, “then at least the presence of the condom indicates that our staff members are practicing safe sex techniques.”